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- Recently, I got a ton of requests
to check out Cyanide & Happiness.
I've never heard of this show before,
but I did some research and I guess,
it's stick figure art to present graphic, dark,
and often surreal humor,
which has been described as
seem to have no taste or boundaries whatsoever.
Kind of scared for what we're in for today.
Either way, we're tackling it headfirst
and breaking down some of the crazy,
medical type situations,
and injuries that happen in this show.
But before we get into it,
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My name is Dr. Jordan Wagner,
I'm an ER doctor.
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All right, let's dive right in.
- Alrighty. Here's your prescription.
- Ah, thanks Doc.
- That's real doctor to you.
- I get a lot of trolls, you know,
haters out there that say,
oh, you're not a real doctor,
but I have a full-time job that I work in an Emerg.
And actually I have two jobs.
And I actually work at a third hospital.
So, I work hard at being a real doctor.
- Because don't worry. I'm a real doctor.
- If you're ever concerned that a doctor
is not who they say they are,
you literally can look them up.
And you would actually be able to find
where they went to medical school,
where they got their degrees from,
what board certification they have.
- Anxiety, aye.
Well, I've got just the thing.
Take three mouthfuls of these bad boys.
Also some uppers to keep you awake,
and some downers to level you out.
- And I've actually seen that
where patients would come in
with medications to help the stimulants to get them up.
And then I've seen the same patient
have medications to bring them down.
It's like, well, why can't you just take no medications
and just be normal.
- Maybe some hallucinogens in case you get bored.
Remember, real doctor here.
- Oh. That's not good.
Don't ever do that.
Now, you're seeing a depiction
where somebody just downing all these medications
called polypharmacy,
and you have no idea
what the interactions with these medications
are inside the body.
You really have to look and see
what type of interactions could occur.
There are resources online where you can actually
put different medications in,
to see if they're compatible,
versus if they have adverse reactions to each other.
- I don't feel so good.
- Upset tummy, say ah.
- Oh don't.
- Ah.
- Oh, that's how you kill a patient.
- A dime of this, a dime of that,
a few tons of this stuff, put that right up.
- This is the police. Open up.
- I commented on a video I've done before
where I let people know that
there's liquid cocaine at a hospital,
and people lost their minds.
Cocaine is like an anesthetic,
as well it also causes vasoconstriction.
Think about it.
Novocaine, lidocaine, benzocaine,
these are all 'caine's, right?
So they're all kind of the same family,
but they're all anesthetics.
- What's happening to him doctor?
- I'm sorry, Mrs. Henry.
- Oh man. It looks like very cachectic,
very cachectic, meaning like very sunken in,
in lack of tissue, and skinny,
and almost like very sick.
- But your husband is suffering from a rare,
rapidly advancing form of arthritis in his rib cage.
- His bones are eroding at an abnormal rate.
- There's no such thing as ribs eroding through arthritis,
typically arthritis occurs at joints.
- What?
- I'm afraid he doesn't have much longer.
- Is there anything we could do?
- Well, we could do,
this.
(Jordan laughing)
- That is so messed up.
He just killed him.
The EKG monitor.
(flatline sound)
- What.
That is so cruel.
What.
When somebody dies, there are steps that you have to do
to confirm that they're dead,
check a pulse, check for respirations,
not just poke somebody in the face
with a musical instrument.
- Not to be a dick or anything
but your daughter's spine is broken.
Her body is riddled with blood clots and viruses,
and she's got a bunch of tumors in her head.
And there's nothing more we can do for her.
- Wait a minute.
- Broken spine, viruses,
blood clots, tumors?
Like what the heck happened to this poor kid?
- How much time does she have left?
- Only a tiny while.
- Did someone say tiny style?
- Tiny style, tiny while.
Family members and patients will ask doctors
and if they have a potentially terminal illness,
how much time do they have left?
So I'm not a big fan of that.
If you tell somebody that they have six months to live,
they're in their brain,
are you gonna put that in?
"Okay, I'm going to die in six months."
Versus tell somebody they're going to live
for another 20 years,
maybe the median age of somebody gonna die
with that disease process is six months,
but maybe they get two years
because you gave him more to live for.
I think there's a huge lesson to be learned.
Even from physicians, we need to kind of be weary
exactly what we say to patients
cause we do greatly influence on potential outcomes.
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- Oh,
cruising on, look at that.
That's really cool.
Red blood cells.
They looks like donuts.
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- And there's a big ball of it,
which is probably a blood clot,
a little off, but pretty good.
- What's this?
Her bloodstream.
It's cleared up.
- This little character is just cruising through the body,
just breaking clots off.
It's probably related to like thrombolytic type agent.
(music continues)
- Nice.
- The viruses, they're vanishing.
- Oh, so cool. I love that there's a battle
with these bacteriophages
and then the viral load is going down.
These viruses are infecting and replicating
within bacteria
and that's why they're called bacteriophages.
Very cool structures.
- Wow, everybody.
Oh, the back is fixed,
and the tumors are removed out of the ear.
- Wow your daughter is completely cured.
- That's super cool.
A lot of times, I wish we had super things like that
to fix people,
but a lot of times treatments
that we actually have nowadays for cancer,
you're trying to kill any rapid dividing cell,
kills the tumor without killing you first kind of thing.
- Now, before I can prescribe you any of these
grown-up drugs,
I've got to run a few quick tests.
- Hm.
That's never a good sign.
Do you feel that?
(patient denying)
- Reflex hammer in the knee.
You're actually hitting the patella tendon,
which then some people are hyperreflexive
or hyporeflexive, or normal.
You get the classic like boing,
you know, kind of thing.
And it feels weird.
You can actually do that in a lot of different tendons
of your body.
Okay, come on Doc, you know.
- Turn your head and cough.
(Jordan gasping)
- Totally inappropriate just shoving your hands
to do an exam.
Basically looking for a hernia,
just turn your head so you don't cough on the doctor.
The reason why you cough
is to increase intra-abdominal pressure,
to see if there's a defect to where you would have a hernia
of small intestine or fat go into the scrotum
or just next to it.
He probably just punched one of them in the face.
- Well, you're not looking too good.
I mean, you're lumpy in all the wrong places,
plus your spine is so crooked.
It's a miracle you can even stand.
I'm gonna have to give you some of the best drugs we've got.
- Oh my gosh.
- But a word of caution,
these drugs are going to make you see some weird ass.
- Don't know what medications he's gonna give
that's gonna make you see weird stuff.
Pain medications could sometimes cause you to feel weird
and hallucinate a little bit.
There isn't a medication out there
that doesn't potentially have a side effect.
So just something to be aware of.
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- Scalpel.
- All right, we got some music in the ORs, normal.
They, it looks like they almost use
like a 10 or 15 blade scalpel
and it looks like they're taking out of the heart.
And the heart is still beating a little bit.
Now the question ends up being
people are gonna ask is
can the heart beat outside of the body?
Typically not after like a beat or two.
Because it functions based on blood flow as well.
Even though there's an electrical circuit to it.
- Donor heart.
- Donor heart is a piece of cake?
- Wires.
- And a candle.
- Wait, what?
- Happy.
- Happy birth
that's so messed up.
- Make a wish.
(heart beating)
- He's got a mask on anyway.
- I have no choice.
- Oh, that's not sterile.
No, that doesn't happen in the operating room.
- Hey doc. I just want to say thanks for saving my life.
You're a miracle worker.
- Also, your heart is a cake.
- What.
Oh my God.
Can the person survive with the heart outside the body?
Yes,
as long as their blood is being pumped through a machine,
that's connected from basically an outflow to an inflow.
Now with a COVID-19 pandemic,
we actually will use a device basically called ECMO,
which is extra corporal membrane oxygenation,
where you actually shut the blood outside the body,
and then get it oxygenated
almost like using your lungs and then bringing in back in.
Pretty crazy what we can do.
So ECMO is not like your first go-to,
it's a last ditch resort.
If somebody is basically on their death bed,
trying to save their life and trying to buy them time
to allow the body to heal itself.
This was really funny, very entertaining.
I didn't know what I was getting myself into
with the Cyanide & Happiness.
It's kind of funny.
And actually some of the medical scenes are quite accurate,
so, very entertaining.
Let me know what you think.
Should I do another one?
Let me know.
Do you have a favorite TV show or movie
that features medical situations
that you want me to break down further and explain?
Let me know which show or episodes in the comments below,
or if I miss any Cyanide & Happiness scenes
that I should check out for another video.
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Thank you so much for watching,
and stay healthy my friends.
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